The Man in the High Castle (2015–…): Season 4, Episode 10 - Fire from the Gods - full transcript

Okay, quiet, everyone.

Cameras rolling.

We go live in five... four...

Ladies and gentlemen,

the Reichsfuhrer
of North America.

My fellow Americans.

The last few days

have been difficult for us all.

Heinrich Himmler

was a father to our people.

We mourn his loss.



But with his passing
comes an opportunity

for rebirth and renewal.

A change has come
to the Western states,

and with it,

a chance to take
our divided land

and bring it back together.

A great transformation
is coming.

Soon,

we will be one nation again.

And clear.

Let's wrap it up, everyone.

Thanks, Ted.

- Great speech.
- Thanks, Bill.

- How'd I do?
- You were wonderful, Daddy.



- Good.
- Reichsfuhrer, our meeting with high command

- is about to begin, so...
- John,

I need a moment in private.

Give us a moment.

Of course.

Stay with Bridget, girls.

Yes, Mother.

Sorry, Helen,

I haven't had the chance
to get back to the apartment

since the plane touched down.

So what is it?

Two SS came by the apartment
this morning.

They tore out a rat's nest

of wires and microphones
from our walls, our phones...

They were acting
on my orders, Helen.

Are you sure
they got everything?

Hoover is no longer a problem.

Oh...

But I'm not just thinking
about Hoover.

No.

You don't need to worry.

Our family is no longer
in danger from Berlin.

You know, a long time ago,

we told ourselves that if
we ever had the chance,

we might do things differently.

A moment, please.

John, there are things
that we need

- to discuss privately.
- Yes, I know,

but we can't discuss them here.

- Then when?
- The day after tomorrow,

I'm gonna be taking a train
to the Poconos, 11:00 a.m.

I'd like you to join me.

Everything's gonna be
made clear, I promise.

- All right.
- Come in.

Gentlemen, take your seats.

Sir, this has just arrived
from Berlin.

Sir, it's plans for Phase Five.

Mom? Are you coming?

I am giving him cephalosporin

to fight infection.

His wounds are healing,

but the stitches
won't be ready to come out

for another week or so.

Gestapo really
scoured that clinic

looking for the bodyguard,
and we got the nurse to safety,

- but...
- Well, it's only a matter of time

before they come
rolling through Harlem

going house to house.

We're gonna gamble that we're
safe for another 24 hours.

You should go, though.
Get to the Poconos.

What about Helen?

You know, I...

I'm not sure anything I said
had an effect on her, honestly.

She was terrified.

We've come this far.
We have to finish it.

Well, you took your chance,

and it, uh,
it was worth a chance.

Thank you.

Well, it's not over.
We've got 400 people

ready to make an assault
on the portal.

Something's coming, you know.

I don't know what it is,
but I've been sensing it.

Well, that's all the more reason

to blow it to kingdom come,
right?

It's an abomination.

It's only an abomination
'cause the Nazis control it.

But what if we controlled it?

That's a doorway to a universe

where the Allies won the war.

I don't know that anyone
can control it for long.

I guess we'll
see you in the Poconos?

We'll be waiting.

Take good care of our boy here.

Be careful.
He, uh, he cheats at cards.

Sometimes you got to even
the odds, you know what I mean?

Uh-huh.

Hey. I said y'all can't be back...

He's in there, all right.
Open that.

Whoa.

Hmm.

"Warning.

Doku."

That's poison.

That should do it, right there.

Shit.

Tank's empty.

Is there another tank?

Fuck. Leave it.

We'll string him up
like we planned.

Oh, shit!

It's good.

Follow me.

We will give you travel permits.

Thank you.

Okami-san,
thank you for seeing me.

I have a-a unique
proposal for you.

I know you'll want to

hear this personally.

I'm a businessman,
much like yourself.

You're nothing like myself.

Okay.

I'm a businessman.

I have a shop filled

with valuable Americana.

There's nothing else
like it, anywhere.

Do we know this store?

I understand you have a trawler

that's going to Japan.

These are the keys to my shop.

You put me on that boat...

and it's yours.

I want my son.

Bring me Colonel Kido's son.

He owes.

I can pay his debts.

The yen is no good here anymore.

We must return to the old ways.

I am familiar with the old ways.

I know you are, Taisa.

I have no doubt you would gun us

all down, but if you did,

you wouldn't last long,

and neither would your boy.

So we must barter for his life.

What do you want?

I want you to serve me
as my saiko-komon,

my supreme adviser.

Don't do this.

These are my debts.

Are you prepared to become a
member of the Ninkyo Dantai?

I am.

For the boat.

You should go now.

This is not
for your eyes to see.

Bow to me, Kido.

As your Oyabun.

Takeshi Kido is Yakuza now.

There's still one last thing
left to do.

John.

I'm working late.

Maybe you should go to bed.

Yeah, go. Go 'round back.

Hide those gun positions.

Make it look like a town,
not a base.

- Let's get those RPGs up front.
- Comandante.

We've marked off where Aztlan
guerrillas are setting up

sniper stations and booby traps
in the Mission District.

We'll get you
the same on our end.

We'll also set up
a chalk code to flag houses

that are safe
and ones we've booby-trapped.

Muy bien.

Sabra has set up
medic stations in all

of the districts, we also have
a medevac team down at the pier.

But we are still evacuating

children and elderly
to our camps in the Sierras.

- Pablo.
- ¿Sí?

Okay...

What've you got for us, Lem?

Volunteers
from the Neutral Zone.

What's this?

Deserters from the Wehrmacht.

They're not the only ones,
either.

They just keep
crossing the border.

What the hell am I
supposed to do with them?

Give them a rifle?

We put 'em to work.

They're Nazis, Lem.

No, they wereNazis.

Get them out of those uniforms.

We'll... put them to work
scrubbing pots.

- Huh.
- Don't let Elijah see them, either.

Oh. They brought
something else, too.

- I'll be damned.
- Mm-hmm.

After all that bullshit,
the dumb-ass cracker

let Kido get away.

The fuck is this?

Lem says there's senior Nazi
officers going cold

- on the Reich.
- People there

saw what happened here.

They see a chance to have
their own country.

The way it used to be.

The way it used to be?

Do you remember
how it used to be, brother?

If there's one thing that can
split the Reich in two,

it's this flag.

All them goddamn Nazis
used to be Americans once.

And all those white Americans
are Nazis now.

Look.

You are facing a war...

which you cannot win.

I'm sorry,
somebody's got to say it.

Man, this flag
ain't never done shit for us.

That ain't what we fought for.

That America's gone.

I'm sorry, Lem.

I know what
you're trying to do...

but we can never go back.

Fair enough.

But you still need
to send a message.

And y'all better do it quick.

'Cause y'all can't
hold out too long here.

The Empire TV station.
Is it still functional?

- Can we get in there?
- Sure 'nough.

This whole city's ours.

Now,
in news from the Western States.

Letters have been streaming
in to Reich headquarters

from ordinary Americans facing
the nightmare of Negro rule.

Their stories are heartbreaking.

But the Reich has heard...

- their pleas for help.
- There you go, sweetie.

In a matter of days,
the campaign of liberation

is set to begin on orders
of Reichsfuhrer John Smith.

We take you now to a report

- from our armored...
- You know?

- In the Neutral Zone...
- We have the sound. Testing,

- Wha-What's happening?
- One, two, three. Clear.

Move the antenna.

BELL: We good?

Go ahead, sister.

Ladies and gentlemen.

- Do not adjust your TV sets.
- A Negro?

There is nothing wrong.

We have interrupted your
regularly scheduled

Nazi propaganda

to bring you the truth.

- Something's wrong. Turn it off.
- No, I want to hear this.

We are the people.

Along with so many others

that the Nazis tried to
exterminate in their camps.

They murdered...

millions of us.

But they failed.

Cut it off, now.

We're still here.

It's coming
out of the former JPS.

They've broken into
our broadcast band.

Now we are free.

The relay transmitters will be
destroyed in minutes, sir.

And you... are slaves

to humanity's greatest lie.

But we can help you
free yourselves.

A long time ago, America made

a promise...
but it was never kept.

We mean to deliver

on that promise.

We have founded a new nation.

If you can hear my voice,

you are already a citizen.

- Holy fucking shit.
- Mom!

- But the first step to freedom...
- Shh.

You must take
inside your own mind.

You don't have
to fight this war.

Desert your post.

Say your gun jammed.

There was sand in the gears.

There's a thousand ways
to resist.

Are we on?

We take you now to a report

from our armored troops
in the Neutral Zone.

Foolish, poking the bear.

These tanks of the 51st...-It
won't make any difference.

Passing in the deserts
of New Mexico.

Commanders here are readying
themselves

for the order to liberate

the Western states.

Amy, go to your room.

You're not my mother,
you can't tell me to go

- to my room.
- You don't want to hear this.

Sweetheart.

It's, it's time for bed.

Come on, I'll tuck you in
in a minute.

It was you.

You and Daddy. You killed them.

Killed who?

The Negroes, the Jews,
all those people.

What happened to them?

Oh.

- I need to hear it from you.
- Okay, uh,

they, they...

they sent them to camps.

And what did they do
in the camps?

They forced them to work.

Then what?

Where are they now?

They're gone.

They killed them.

And you and Daddy
were a part of it.

Yes.

Yes, we were.

It...

It was a different time.

We felt like our world...

It had just ended,
it was a decision

that we made for one day
that led to 20 years.

You could have escaped
to the Neutral Zone.

Yeah, we could have, yes.
But we didn't.

So you joined the Party instead.

Daddy was in the SS.

I did it because I...

well, I believed in it.

Not at first, but later I-I...

- I believed in all of it.
- The camps where they killed

- the Jews and the Negroes?
- All of it.

All of it. They told us
it was necessary.

I didn't ask any questions.
I didn't even

think about those people
until...

Oh.

Until we became those people.

You got all this.

We didn't do it for this.

We did it to keep you alive.

You didn't keep
Thomas alive, did you?

Oh, God, Jennifer, don't you
think that I know that?

- They took him away.
- I am begging you,

- please, please, please.
- They poisoned him!

Don't, don't do this.

He was my brother.
I loved him, too.

Ye... I know how
you must see us, but...

Everything we have was bought

with other people's lives.

You were our children.

Our babies.

How many were there?

In America.

In Europe,

in Africa, how many?

I-I don't...

- I don't know.
- And they're gonna do it

all over again, aren't they?

And Daddy's gonna be
in charge, isn't he?

I don't know.

I don't ever want
to be like you.

You shouldn't have to be.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Good night.

Reichsfuhrer.

A word, if I may?

Your wife's minder,
Agent Martha Stroud,

has disappeared, sir.

She was last seen
guarding your wife

at the Davenport Women's Clinic.

She never returned to her post.

Or her apartment.

A thorough search has been
conducted, but no body found.

However, we did find this...

in the clinic incinerator.

Staatspolizei believe

that she's been murdered
by the Resistance, sir.

Well,
this isn't gonna feel good.

Deep breath.

That's not too bad, actually.

You know, in all honesty,
I'd be better off

drinking that rotgut.

Take the edge off.

Well, when your dressing's
changed, maybe I'll

pour two fingers
in a glass for you.

Ah, see, now you're talking.

What happened in that clinic...

I know.

I like to think I can handle
most situations, but...

fuck.

I don't know if I have
the stomach for this anymore.

I'm sick and tired
of being Wyatt Price,

I can tell you that much.

Well, good news,

you've always been Liam,
far as I'm concerned.

Listen...

I hope you can understand
why I've kept my distance.

A lot of people
have gotten hurt around me.

A lot of people
got hurt around me, too.

I didn't want it
to happen to you.

But it didn't happen.

Because you were there.

I'll go when it's my time.

For now,

I just take each day
that's given to me.

But you can still leave.

You have choices.

You can live in any world
you want to.

You know, I've seen a lot
of versions of my life.

But there's only one with people
in it who understand me.

So...

no.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Sir?

What did you mean
when you told Bellows

something is coming?

I've seen it, in visions.

It's not complete, but it's...

Davenport Women's Clinic.

I have two daughters.

Yes.

Amy and Jennifer.
Yes, I remember them.

I need to get us out
before anything happens.

I have a brother in Montana.

We have a network.

Our people will get you
and the girls there safely.

You need to promise me.

You have my word.

The train leaves at 11:00 a.m.
tomorrow for the Poconos.

My husband will be on it.

Aren't you going to eat
your grapefruit, Jennifer?

I have no appetite.

Teenagers.

I'm afraid I'm going to have
to take a raincheck

on our trip today, John.

You may have to go without me.

I'm not feeling well.

Oh.

Is this something
I should be concerned about?

- Oh, it's just, uh...
- It's just what?

It's nothing serious.

Oh.

Well, if it's nothing serious,

then I'll send a car for you
at 10:00 a.m.

See you on the train.

Tell me, in the gokudo,
do I outrank you?

Yes, saiko-komon.

Then go away.

There are things
that must be said.

- You don't have to...
- I have failed you as a father.

The first duty of a parent
is to protect his child.

- Stop.
- Let me finish.

I never showed
my true affection for you.

I have so many regrets.

I can only say
that you will always be my son.

Come home with me.

- The invasion will begin soon...
- There is no going back.

I have much to atone for,

and I must start here.

Good-bye, Father.

Redline power at 15%.

Follow up.

6th Airborne Division
will drop on San Francisco.

Helen.

Thanks for being here.

Give us a moment to wrap up
and we can have a private talk.

The corporal
will give you some tea.

- Tea, ma'am?
- Please.

It should be right here.

Right there, lads.

We're at the fence line.

Understood. Good luck.

- Out.
- Copy that.

Bellows has all four companies
in position.

They're ready to move
on our word.

How long have we got?

Roughly 54 minutes.

Stand clear.

All right, the power's off.

Sir, it's from
General Whitcroft.

Strategic Air Command
is awaiting your order

to launch the assault
on San Francisco, sir.

Thank you. That'll be all.

Sir.

Helen?

Take a seat.

Helen, I want to ask you
a question.

And I want you
to answer truthfully.

Have you ever been approached
by the Resistance?

Yes.

Julia Mills, you remember her.

That day
at the department store.

She told me Thomas was alive,
that you'd been to visit him.

She also told me there were
films in our apartment.

I looked, and I found them.

There we were,

all of us, together.
It... it never happened.

And yet, there we were.

What is going on?

Julia Mills
is a terrorist, Helen.

But what she told you is true.

Thomas is alive
in another world, Helen,

and I've been to see him.

What do you mean, another world?

You have to see t-the portal
yourself to understand.

That's why I asked you here.

Lay the charges
all around the base.

- Yes, sir.
- Yes, sir.

All right, come here. Come here.

Fill these with sand
and pack them round the charges.

All right?

It'll force the blast
into the column.

We're gonna down this thing
like a fucking tree.

This, this portal
you're talking about...

I-I mean, what?

You've seen it yourself, Helen.

You've seen the movies.
Well, I've been there.

He's alive.

I have had that fantasy
so many times,

but it's just that, John,
it's a fantasy.

No.

He's not...

I've seen him.

Helen, I've seen
our beautiful boy.

He's real.

He's real as you and me.

I want you to... I want you
to have the same thing I had,

Helen,
I want you to see him yourself.

Well, of course
I want that, but...

He's not sick,
he's healthy, he's strong.

He's doing so well. He's...

There is a war,
and he is enlisted.

He is so much like our Thomas.

Uh, but he's-he's not.
He's not our Thomas.

I can see what's gonna happen.

Helen, he's gonna die all over
again unless we do something.

- But we can save him.
- How?

We can bring him home.

You want to bring this boy here?

As what, as a-a prisoner?

Now, I've struggled with it.
I know it's not gonna be easy,

but, uh, I don't think
we have any choice.

I can't lose him again.

He's gonna hate us,
but he's gonna be alive,

- and I can live with that.
- Well, I can't, I can't.

- I can't live with that.
- When you see him again,

you're gonna change your mind.

- No. No!
- Helen...

No.

Thomas is dead.

Amy isn't ours anymore.
Her mind belongs to the state.

And Jennifer, well,
Jennifer has rejected us.

We had three chances
and we wasted them all.

That-that's where
you're wrong, Helen.

If there is a better version
of me out there somewhere,

I want her to have my son,
because you and I,

we don't deserve
to have a child.

You're saying you have a chance
to see your son again

and you're not gonna take it?

I wouldn't want him
to see what we have become.

Yes.

The 500th
Airborne is ready to deploy.

The Luftwaffe has
recommended we launch.

Everyone's just waiting
your order, sir.

- Give the order.
- Right away, sir.

Listen.

Zero, this is OP. Come in,
Zero, are you receiving?

- Where is it?
- It just passed the marker.

OP says five clicks out.

Right, let's get
these sandbags in place.

Come on, speed it up. Let's go!

I've seen the plans, John.

The plans for the camps.

How did we get here?

You and me, how did weget here?

This thing that we have been
a part of...

it is a crime.

I know.

It has to stop.

I don't know how.

Get to cover!

Sir! Taking fire!

Inform battalion
we're under attack!

Go! Go, go!

- Go, go!
- Shoot it!

I made arrangements
for the girls.

It was me, John.

I can't stop!

Ah!

H... Helen?

Helen?

Sir!

Reichsfuhrer!

Sir, we have to go.
Sir, we have to go! Come on!

Get him up! Pick him up!

Run!

Incoming!

Go! We'll cover you!

Bellows, stay back!

We've breached
the outer defenses.

D Company is at the mine
entrance now.

We'll meet you at the portal.
Good luck. Out.

Friendlies. Clear.

We're clear.

Guys, we got to move.

Let's go, let's go.

Hey. Where's that bag?

Have you seen Juliana?

Haven't seen her. We got to move.

There you are.

We've seen things... you and me.

Other worlds.

Other lives.

We... we have that in common.

It's unbearable.

To be able
to look through that door

and glimpse all the people
you could have been.

And to know that out of
allof them...

this is the one you became.

Move, move, move!
Get civilians to shelter!

- Luftwaffe planes sighted. Paratrooper divisions coming in!
- Everybody move!

Move, move!
Get in position! Now!

Go, go, go!

Everyone get ready!

- Enemy bombers sighted!
- Hurry!

Bombers!

Alpha, this is Hotel.

We have found the Reichsfuhrer.

- John Smith is Delta Echo.
- John Smith is dead.

Sir.

Get me Strategic Air Command.

Now!

Oh, baby.

Baby.

It's happening.

The door is open.

They're coming.

From where?

Everywhere.